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- OUR NHS - Mary December 29, 2019, 9:34 am
- Re: OUR NHS It is destruction by stealth - Mary December 29, 2019, 10:03 am
- Laughing in our faces, cont'd - Mary December 29, 2019, 12:12 pm
- Re: Laughing in our faces, cont'd - Mary December 29, 2019, 12:25 pm
- Laughing in our faces, cont'd - Mary December 29, 2019, 12:12 pm
- Re: OUR NHS It is destruction by stealth - Mary December 29, 2019, 10:03 am
Posted by Mary
on December 29, 2019, 9:34 am
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Ridley, one of Thatcher's crowd, is referred to within this essay by John Furse in the LRB. The NHS: Dismantled 7 November 2019 'In his report to the Conservative Party’s Economic Reconstruction Group in 1977, Nicholas Ridley wrote that denationalisation should not be attempted by frontal attack but by preparation for return to the private sector by stealth. We should first pass legislation to destroy the public sector monopolies. We might also need to take power to sell assets. Secondly, we should fragment the industries as far as possible and set up the units as separate profit centres. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n21/john-furse/the-nhs-dismantled Ridley, one of the proponents of NHS privatisation, along with Redwood and Letwin, also assisted Thatcher in breaking the miners' strike by piling up coal stocks in advance of it. She gave Ridley a peerage. He died in 1983. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Ridley,_Baron_Ridley_of_Liddesdale He is still being dealt with reverentially, especially by the likes of the Torygraph. See this in today's edition. 'Premium Telegraph Opinion Letters: Britain’s piecemeal health system needs remodelling, not just extra cash Save 66 It is time to put the planning of health services back in the hands of clinicians Credit: Getty Letters to the Editor 29 December 2019 • 12:01am SIR – Boris Johnson has made the NHS his top priority. He plans to guarantee a set level of funding, but this does not address the fact that we have a divided and unequal distribution of services that appear inadequate at best. A “bottom up” process of service commissioning, led by innumerable clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), has resulted in different levels of care in the four home nations. It is time to “re-nationalise” the NHS, reversing this element of devolution, and to put the planning of services back into the hands of clinicians. There needs to be a functional and physical separation of acute (emergency) care and elective (planned) care if acute units are to cope. New community hospitals... blah blah |
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